Episode 201: The Babadook with Dorothy Woodend

Oct 23, 2019

Summary:

  

"Pain in the nip." This week we roll into the third week of Feminist Horror Month by tackling the Babadook and the terrors of motherhood with our resident film critic Dorothy Woodend. Also discussed: Hereditary, Great British Bake Off, and Alicia Tobin's new book So You're A Little Sad, So What? 

 

 

Show notes:

Dorothy Woodend's bio 

‘The Babadook’ and the Mother of All Terrors (Dorothy Woodend, the Tyee)

 

How the Babadook became the LGBTQ icon we didn’t know we needed (Vox)

 

The Horrors of Motherhood Creep Through “The Babadook” (Bitch Media)

 

 

Recommendations:

Andrea W.: So You're A Little Sad, So What? by Alicia Tobin (book)

Lisa: Great British Bake Off (TV)

Dorothy: Parasite (film)


Music credits:

"Ghost" by Podington Bear
From Free Music Archive
CC BY 3.0

 

Theme song "Pyro Flow" by Kevin Macleod

From Incompetch

CC BY 3.0

Intro bed:"OLPC" by Marco Raaphorst

Courtesy of Free Music Archive

CC BY-SA 3.0 NL

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